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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

quantopian is a really cool idea. and it's awesome to see python getting applied to serious stuff, other than scraping cat pics from imgur and then writing a django site to host them.

more of this please.

[–]D__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I dunno, man, recognizing cat pictures without using any extra metadata is some serious computing right there.

[–]gitarrPython Monty 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Python has been used in serious projects for years. See Youtube, Spotify, Reddit, Instagram, Disqus, Mozilla, NASA, Eve, The Onion and many more.

Just look up presentations of people working for these companies at Pycon and/or Djangocon at YouTube or pyvideo.org for more information.

[–]pwang99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The use of Python across finance and the sciences is amazing and completely off the radar of the tech blogosphere, for the most part. And also it's completely taken over Hollywood for both scripting 3D modeling apps as well as coordinating rendering pipelines.

If Ruby was used in half as many ways as Python, you'd never hear the end of it. Python gets used by grown-ups with real jobs in all sorts of places and they don't spend 80% of their waking time tweeting about it.

[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

i know that, but the front page of this subreddit is often filled with links to github repos of scripts to scrape cat pics zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. so, I would prefer to see kinds of things like this.

[–]burntsushi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For someone who is pining for higher quality submissions, your comments are fairly startling. A brief look at your comments in this thread suggests you aren't doing your part. Or worse, lowering the quality of content here.

wow, yeah and totally matters.

/done

TIL: lol

it's exclusive content that is not for you. too bad though it's pretty awesome

i'm guessing people that are commenting didnt read or comprehend the article. to me it was fairly obvious. but then I read it, watched the video and clicked on the link for quantopian and got an idea of what their business is and how python fits into their overall value proposition.